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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Subject: Re: umask under 4.3 BSD
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 22:08:33 EDT
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In article <7554@brl-adm.ARPA> eichelbe@nadc.arpa (H. McCloskey) writes:
>I am running 4.3 BSD on a VAX 11/780.  Does anyone know how I could
>change the system-wide "umask" so when I person does something like
>echo "stuff" > x
>x will have the file permission 0600 and not 0644?  I have source code
>for the system.

In the source for /bin/login, change the line:

      umask(022);

to:

      umask(077);

Then just re-install login, and you'll have your new system-wide umask.

--Pat.